Using SoloKey on vanilla Ubuntu

Michał Margula

It has been almost a year since last time I posted here so today we will have a quick one. I recently bought a SoloKeyU2F key. It is a much cheaper and opensorce replacement for YubiKey (which is also a great product - I had a chance to use it for almost 2 years and it was flawless). In vanilla Ubuntu 18.04 when you plugin the key it gets detected correctly:

Now you can test it by going to demo.yubico.com using Google Chrome. Click Next on first page and allow access to the key. The LED on SoloKey should turn amber and after clicking its hardware button it will get registered correctly.

If you want to do the same from the Firefox you need to reconfigure it first. Open about:config URL and confirm that you accept the risk. Find security.webauth.u2f there and flip it to True.